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Manohar Publishers & Distributors Kalyan'a Shat'anku Or the Marriage Ceremonies of the Hindus of South India Together with A Description of karumantharum or the Funeral Ceremonies & CO by J F Kearns
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. ... pot, and the person who takes the style is said to be the more eminent of the two! 9. Third.--Among very poor Maravers, few ceremonies only are performed. They simply have a feast for their relations, place the bridegroom and the bride on the Manavarei, and cause the bridegroom's sister to tie the Thali; and thus ends the business. $1P Wives can be taken only from the relations of the bridegroom's mother; and never from the father's relations. Strangers are preferable to the father's relations. MARRIAGE CEREMONIES KUBAVERS. Each party endeavours to ascertain the mind of the other privately; and having ascertained it they consult a Brahmin about the intended marriage. If he gives a favorable answer, the bridegroom's party proceed to the bride's house tc arrange for the marriage. They take arrack with them and give it to the bride's father. He also procures arrack, and both parties drink freely of it, distribute betel and then begin to settle the conditions of marriage! The bridegroom's father asks the bride's father, in the presence of several others, whether he intends to give his daughter in marriage to his son. If he replies in the affirmative, the bridegroom's father gives him a little arrack in a cocoanut shell and a piece of tobacco. This is called "the arrack and tobacco of confirmation!' Also a jeinbu full of water is placed before the couple and a grass named Thurvi (i. e., Agrostis li/nearis) is put into the water. This is equal to an oath between the couple. 2. A feast then follows with arrack and toddy. They again meet after dinner to settle about Parisam which, if the bride be related to the bridegroom, is four Narwngiis. One Narwigu is equal to Rupees 8-5-4. Of these four, one is paid immediately, together with Rupees 1-3-4...